Monday Apr 30, 2012
After three weeks in Los Angeles I was reminded of the plethora of reasons it’s great to go back and visit. Family, friends, ballgames, and Slurpees are just a few.
Another activity I thoroughly enjoy back home is going to my local bookstore. On this particular trip, I reintroduced myself to the master of horror Stephen King. King is a brilliant storyteller, and what most impresses me is his painting of every scene with an appropriate...
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Wednesday Apr 04, 2012
I learned very quickly that while Bar Ilan University may be a bastion for Anglos who have recently made Aliyah it was hardly a bastion for normalcy. This was never more apparent than at the Bar Ilan English Speaking Communities’ annual Open Mic Night.
I went in with the highest of hopes to find someone talented in either stand-up comedy or singing prowess.
The first participant asked the crowd if we like magic tricks...
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Tuesday Mar 20, 2012
I love a great villain. Or more correctly, I love to hate a great villain.
I find myself fascinated with the psyche, as well as the methods, of men and women hell-bent on causing chaos in the lives of others.
This infatuation is the root of my love for Benjamin Linus, the manipulative villain of ABC’s smash-hit series “Lost”. Ben’s penchant for pushing the precise buttons of each character at the consummate...
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Sunday Mar 04, 2012
Everyone has one of those friends.
You know, the one who‘s equal parts adventurous, fun-loving and unpredictable so that you just can’t help but want to be around him.
My friend of the kind just got back from four months volunteering in Nepal.
I saw him on his third day back in civilization and he was still adjusting. He had just come from living in a mud house almost completely shut off from the world he had...
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Wednesday Feb 22, 2012
If there is any chance Ayn Rand filled out a 2012 NCAA March Madness bracket , now would be a good time to get your hands on it. In things as unpredictable as the annual college basketball tourney and…say…world politics, clairvoyance is at a premium.
In Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, the iconic novel filled with many brilliant scenes illuminating the mind of the backwards liberal ideologue, protagonist Hank Rearden...
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